Some Have Hats

Links to Fr. Mankowski's Articles

I will eventually put these in chronological order. For now, I just want to get them up so people can read them. 

• Why the Immaculate Conception?
• What I Saw at the American Academy of Religion
• The Priest as Evangelical Witness
• What Went Wrong?
• Jesus, Son of Humankind
• Liberal Jesuits and the Late Pope
• The Prayer of Lady Macbeth: How the Contraceptive Mentality Has Neutered Religious Life
• Playing Church
• Word for Word
• Thou Art a Priest Forever
• Comfort to Predators
• His Excellency
• Historical Critical Qur'an
• Dem Bones
• The Gospel According to David Bentley
• Waugh on the Merits
• Pontifex Minimus
• The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism
• Silk Purses and Sow's Ears
• The Skimpole Syndrome Childhood Unlimited
• Academic Religion: Playground of the Vandals
• Pastoral Proposals for the Problem of Clerical Sexual Abuse  
• The Languages of Biblical Translation
• Feminist Pilgrims
• Super Flumina Babylonis, or, Outside the Mainstream
• Do You Believe What You Sing?
• Of Rome and Runnymede
• Why Universities Went Secular
• Assassins of a Lesser God
• Wholesaling the Sacred
• Recent Work on the Patterning of Open Syllable Vowel-shifts in Pre-Masoretic Hebrew: An Address on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of Thomas Aquinas College
• Truth Himself Speaks Truly: An Address to the Conference on the Christian Worldview and the Academy Sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute, Princeton University, November 10, 2007.
• Science, Prescience, and the Care of Souls
• One Flesh: Reflections on the Biblical Meaning of Marriage (Harmon Lecture, Pontifical Biblical Institute)
• The Mission of Christ and Christ-Like Women
• A Fig Leaf for the Creed
• Flannery O'Connor: A Life
• Mailer's False Messiah
• Voices of Wrath: When Words Become Weapons
• In Praise of Conformity: Why Priests Should Stop Fooling Around with the Liturgy
• Myth of the Myth of the Red Scare
• Believe What You Teach/Teach What You Believe

Books:

• Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church (chapter)

Videos:

• Fr. Mankowski on Evelyn Waugh
• The Hillbilly Thomist (Fr. Mankowski on Flannery O'Connor)
• Fr. Mankowski on the Crisis the Catholic Church
• Fr. Z's Mass for Fr. Mankowski

Uncle Di:

• The Legion of Christ and Its Founder
• The Problem of the Rigid Seminarian
• Sexual Abuse Before the Great Enlightenment
• The Undead
• Hostility Comes to the Surface
• It's Not Your Fault Koko Bear
• Untitled (on female ordination)
• The March of History
• Rather Trying to Keep His Head Down
• Simon Says, the Pope Distorts Science
• You Are My Witnesses
• Can't Get No Respect
• Right from the Beginning
• Thin Skin
• Dueling Excommunications
• Wet Hankies in Tomorrowland
• Pledge to Heal, Promise to Protect
• The Posture Imposture
• That's So Gay!
• He Has Filled the Hungry with Good Things
• Lights Out
• The Reckoning -- Reconsidered
• None So Blind
• Anglicanism...And Anglicanism Lite
• Promise Them Anything
• With Friends Like These
• Foxes Find Chicken-Coop Security Measures Excessive
• The Solipsist's Catechism
• How We've Grown
• A Nose for the News
• Campaign Endorsements and False Promises
• Why do we need a new translation of the Mass, anyway?
• You Can't Be Poorer Than Dead
• Unprofessional
• The Futility of High-Fashion Sacrilege
• Loco Parentis
• An Honest Journalist
• Serial Delusion
• Drudgery
• The Primates Study Group
• Saddled with Guilt
• Is Off the Record too Hard on the Bishops?
• Sense and Celibacy
• The Instruction Arrives!
• Dowd on Dowd
• Alito in the Ring
• Way, Way Out There
• The Good Catholic
• A Very Simple Woman
• Principled Catholic Social Action
• Under False Colors
• Virtually Regular
• Foregone Conclussions
• Kerry Gets Religion
• Continuing Roman Catholic - Anglican Dialogue
• Seminary Draft Doc Leaked
• Plus ça Change
• Laywoman Issues Statement on Bishops' Response to Rioting in France
• Non Serviam
• Episcopal Rhetoric Quiz
• Hey, It's Only Money
• To Be Definitely Held
• Arkes on Dershowitz
• Conflict of Interest at the National Catholic Reporter?
• Italian Paper Quotes Doomsday Doc
• The Good News, Elucidated
• Doom Deferred?
• Holy Mysteries
• Very, Very Convinced
• The Times Meets the Evangelicals
• Threats We Can Live With
• Executive Session
• Score One
• Dialogue in the Void
• Pot, Meet Kettle
• Goodbye to All That
• When is a Stand Not a Stand
• Still a Mystery
• Priestly Formation in L.A.
• Two-Way Traffic Ahead
• Fear of Closure and the Life of Faith
• Still Protecting the Predators
• Something About Anna
• The Progress Machine
• Phoenix, From the Ashes
• Rendering Thanks
• The Undead (following the RIP)
• Well then...Well then...Well then... Who's Left?
• What No One Else Will Say
• And the Beat Goes On
• Control-C, Control-V
• Sub-Standard Medicine
• Smaller Things First
• Control-X
• Gracelessness
• Practical Steps for Liturgical Reform
• Armageddon
• Wearing the Uniform
• Reactive
• Instructive
• Backing Water and Blowing Smoke
• ICEL Agonistes
• A Primer on Vows
• All the Views Deemed Fit to Print
• ...Or They Could Just Ignore It
• Unclear on the Concept?
• Exhibit A: Affective Immaturity
• Detesting the Unlocked Door
• I Was Aborted at 7 1/2 Months
• Experts Agree: Trust the Experts
• On Jordan's Bank
• Clergy Gift Ideas
• Thank You for Your Sacrificed
• May I Have the Honor of the Next, er, Waltz?
• Either/Or
• The Rev. Mr. Grinch
• Save the Last Dance for Me -- BC
• Not Just Cooperation
• Theology, Boston Style
• Such a Lovely Little Lie
• Non-Smoking Newspaper, Capricorn, Seeks 50-ish Feminist for Possible Romance
• Time for Our Nap, Dear
• Cursory Nursery Rhymes
• Condition Rose
• Impose Your Morality on Us! Globe Pleads with Churches
• Heathy Alternatives
• Santa Too Scary for Children, Says UK Government
• The Sixth Way
• Tis the Season
• Gay Jesuit Deplores Pain Caused by Church
• Tidings of Comfort and Joy
• Thanksgiving and Citizenship
• Test Case
• Extra Virgin, Get It?
• After Faith, What?
• ...And a Medium Slurpy to Go
• Cowpokes: Take Two
• Had Enough?
• The Strange Case of the Missing Mass
• Selective Prosecution
• And Don't Just Keep Christ in Christmas
• Precious Moments in America
• Up In Smoke
• Poster Boy for Celibacy
• I am Richard. Hear me Rohr.
• Hot Investment Tip
• Volatile Terrain, Vulnerable Textures
• Elizabeth A
• Catholic Universities: Hold 'Em or Fold 'Em?
• Speculation
• Unqualified Candidates
• Simple Servants and Marked Men
• Don't Ask, Don't Tell: A Subtle Seminary Entrance Test
• Mystery Solved
• Upon a Midnight Clear
• Circular Letter
• The Quotable Skylstad
• Hearing Voices
• Resistance is Futile: Toward a Welcoming Ecclesial Community
• With a Whimper
• Shrinking Violets
• The Fun Side of Feticide
• WMD
• The Seminary Visitation: John Allen's Mid-Term Report 
• Accountability Are Us
• Coulda Been a Contenda
• Do You Feel Safer Now?
• Vacancy
• By Any Other Name
• Weigel on the Form at the Heart of the Re-Form
• A Long Way, Baby
• Canada: Trahisin de Clercs
• Keeping the Missing Link Lost 
• Their Finest Hour
• Religion - "A Form of Child Abuse
• In Articulo Mortis
• The Plaintiff's Attorney and the Sundance Kid
• Science and the Progress of Malice
• Twas Ever Thus
• Auto-Amputation & Anglican
• Royaled Waters
• Just Pay the Man
• Feminism's Lethal Victory
• Fatherhood
• Samuel, Samuel!
• Progressives Have a Point

 

Not written by Fr. Mankowski, but relevant...

• The Strange Political Career of Fr. Drinan by James Hitchcock

 

Tributes:

Farewell, Uncle Di by Phil Lawler

Remembering Fr. Paul Mankowski by Tony Abbott

The Life and Death of Paul Mankowski by Rod Dreher

Paul Mankowski and the Jesuit Vocation by Joseph Koterski, SJ

Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ: A Tribute by Cardinal George Pell

Satirical Author Fr. Paul Mankowski Dies at 66 (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J., RIP by Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky for The Catholic Thing

Obituaries

In Memoriam: Fr. Paul Mankowski by Kenneth Craycraft

Chicago Tribune Obituary

Some Have Hats Redux

Years ago, I had a blog called Some Have Hats. Some of you might remember it. I shut it down and deleted it so as to remain employable. I have no time or desire to start it again. But I wanted a place where I could collect all of the articles written by the mighty Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, of happy memory. His death has left a great many people feeling like a large plug has been taken out of their lives, and I wanted to do something to make them (and myself) feel better.  It has been a comfort to me to read his words, so I want everyone else to be able to do that easily, for whatever comfort it might offer them.

I will, in time, have a few things to say. Fr. Mankowski was, to me and to a few lucky others, just Paul. (Although I never forgot for a second that he was FATHER Paul.) He wasn't my spiritual director, he never heard my confession, although he did help me with quite a few theological issues and he was my rock when it came to trying to negotiate the quagmire that is the modern Church. More than anything, he was one of my dearest friends. The kind of friend that you hope outlives you. 

He was the holiest person I have ever known, but also the funniest. When his friends talk about him, the word "brilliant" is usually about the third word in, and no one is exaggerating. He was a treasure.

I'll have the rest of my life to sing his praises. Right now, I just want to make a good place for people to come and read his words.